Poultry-picking implement.



N0. 795,013. PATBNTED JULY 18, 1905.

A. WEILER.

POULTRY PICKING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4.1905.

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Patented July 18, 1905.

PATENT OEEicE.

ANTON WEILER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

POULTRY-PICKING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 795,013, dated July 18,1905,

Application filed May 4, 1905. Serial No. 258,871.

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Be it known that I, ANTON VVEILER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Poultry-PickingImplements, of which the following, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

In the operation of picking the feathers from poultry it has always beenfound very difficult, slow, and tedious to pluck the pinfeathers fromthe poultry, and in attempting to do this the flesh of the poultry isusually bruised and injured.

The object of this invention is to obviate said difheulty and injuriouseffects; and to that end the invention consists in the novelconstruction of the implement hereinafter described and as illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which--- Figures 1 and 2 are side viewsof an implement embodying my invention shown in its normal condition andits operative condition. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of theimplement in the condition shown in Fig. 2. Fig.4: is a longitudinalsection on the line X X in Fig. 1; and Figs. 5 and 6 are transversesections, respectively, on the lines Y Y and Z Z in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a a represent flexible fingers which are united at one end andpreferably formed from a strip of spring-steel band bent at the centerof its length so as to dispose the ends thereof directly opposite eachother and normally a short distance apart, as shown in Fig. 1. The freeends of said fingers are formed with V- shaped pincers b b for graspingthe pin feathers 0, (indicated in dotted lines in Figs; 2 and 3 of thedrawings.) To allow the said pincers to obtain a firm hold on thepinfeather without danger of cutting it off and leaving a portionthereof in the poultry, I form said pincers with inwardly-deflectedflanges (Z d, extending along the edges thereof and to theplucking-points of the pincers and flattened on the meeting edges of theflanges, as shown at c c in Figs. 3, 4, and 6 of the drawings. Theflanges (Z (Z are preferably beveled on their exteriors at the ends orplucking-points of the pincers, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Saidbeveled portions allow the pincers to more easily push back the skinsurrounding the protruding end of the pin feather to be plucked. alsoserve to stiffen the pincers.

To brace the portions of the fingers a/ (1 adjacent to the pincers; Iform said. fingers with coneavo-convex longitudinal ribsff, extendingfrom the pincers part way the lengths of the fingers.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. A poultry-picking implementconsisting of .flexible fingers provided with V-shaped pincers formedwith inwardly-deflected flanges extending along the edges of the pincersand flattened on the meeting edges of the flanges for grasping andplucking pin-feathers without danger of cutting them as set forth.

2. A poultry-picking implement consisting of flexible fingers pnited atone end and formed at their free ends with V-shaped pincers providedwith inwardly deflected flanges on the edges of the pincers and beveledat the plucking-points and flattened on the meeting edges of the flangesand concavo-convex longitudinal ribs extending from the pincers part waythe lengths of the fingers substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

ANTON WEILER. WVitnesses:

J. J. LAASS, L. H. FULMER.

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